Hafsat Abiola Reveals Intimate Spiritual Secrets At 47

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Hafsat Abiola reveals secrets<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that for the first time&comma; Hafsat Abiola&comma; daughter of late MKO Abiola&comma; business tycoon and winner of the annulled June 12&comma; 1993 presidential election&comma; is 47 years old&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The daughter of late Kudirat Abiola was born on August 21&comma; 1974&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;For reasons best known to her&comma; the former special adviser to governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State on Millennium Development Goals has decided to reveal her spiritual secrets that keep her strong and going in life&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She wrote&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This isn&&num;8217&semi;t a big birthday&period; That will be in a couple of years&period; And yet&comma; it comes at a major time in my life&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I&&num;8217&semi;m not religious&comma; although nominally I follow the teachings of Islam&comma; the religion of my parents&period; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am more spiritual&comma; seeing myself as a spiritual being having a human experience&period; Yet&comma; of the ideas from Islam&comma; my favorite is &&num;8220&semi;there is no compulsion in religion&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think there should be no compulsion in any aspect of life&period; Live&comma; and let live&period; Allow people to be who they are&period; Allow yourself&comma; too&comma; to be who you are and have the courage to live your way into who you could become&period; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As I begin another tour around the sun in all its glory&comma; I feel so thankful for all I&&num;8217&semi;ve experienced in the book of life so far and blessed to begin this new chapter&comma;”<&sol;em> she disclosed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Hafsat <strong>Abiola<&sol;strong> who married Nicholas Costello&comma; a British diplomat from the United Kingdom in 2001&comma; is a human rights&comma; civil rights and democracy activist&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The mother of two- Khalil and Anabella- graduated from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Phillips Academy<&sol;a>&comma; Andover&comma; in 1992 and Harvard College in 1996 where she received a degree in Development Economics&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She later earned her M&period;Sc in International Development from Tsinghua University&comma; Beijing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In honor of her mother&comma; who died in the June 12 democratic struggle&comma; she founded Kudirat Initiative for Democracy&comma; KIND&comma; in 1997 with the aim of promoting the development of women as initiators of change through leadership and awareness programmes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;